My friend David Desperito (look him up on facebook) is a mentally disabled african american 16 year old boy. In this awful world that combination is a recipe for trouble. Poor David gets beat up almost everyday after school by a certain group of bigger kids. David, defenseless...

My whole life I have been told to not fight people. I have been taught to follow the saying 'turn the other cheek', but I have never really done it. I know though looking at my past that all those times I got physical that I ended up hurting somebody or getting in trouble. On...

If you are offended by Christianity, then you will not wish to read this post. I will not preach but I am a Christian and my reasons for becoming a pacifist are scriptural in part. I would like to share the specific verses.
Luke 3:14 "And the soldiers likewise demanded of him...

I believe it is possible to be anti-war without being anti-military. I think I am anti-war because of my deep admiration for those who voluntarily serve in the armed forces of their nations (whatever their nations).
Many, many years ago I proudly served in the U.S. Navy; and...

I can firmly say, without a single doubt, that I am an avid supporter of pacifism - I despise the Armed Forces with a fashion, and have long dreamt of the abolition of war. However, much to my surprise, I've recently been toying with the idea of joining something like the French...

I have no idea how we are to go about bringing peace between so many countries with so many differences. I don't doubt it would take a long long time, possibly several martyrs. But the more I see and the more i learn about wars both past and present, the more I believe that...

I have been a pacifist since the age of 20. It has been almost 46 years now. Been through a lot of crap. Did alternative service and 4 years Navy Corpsman (unarmed). I have been a healer since then. I made mistakes along the way, but I have not taken a human life.

A pacifist is a person with strength of heart and integrity of mind, unwilling to conform to the impulsive nature of violent exchange. I am actively pacifistic and looking for people with whom to collaborate in order to change this world for the better. Those who are interested...

I was born during WWII, and my father was a soldier. I lived in Korea in 1947 when the forgotten war was about to start. In 1950 I was 8 years old and lived near Ft. Bliss, Texas. We went to the movie theater on the base and saw newsreels. I was so upset when they showed...

The world is full of hatred, pain, sorrow, and so on, but why continue it? I don't believe that violence is the answer to anything. Life is too short for worrying about these small "earthly" problems. Most of us will be in heaven soon enough with eternal happiness. May...

Whenever I think of mothers losing their sons and daughters, it makes me so sad. I don't want any parent to experience that needlessly or for reasons that may never affect them in any other way. And just the thought of another person dieing over differences in beliefs...

Fighting. War. Hatred. Animosity. Loath, malice, vengefulness, hostility, aggression, violence. I am against all these things. I am a Shinto, born in Tokyo, Japan. There is nothing that makes me sadder and more angry that lives destroyed, lost, or ****** up in general from world...

"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war." -Albert Einstein
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that...

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it"--Mark TwainI...